This upside takes us back to 2006 showing how Emily (Emily VanCamp) met Aiden (Barry Sloane) and saved Ashley (Ashley Madekwe). Seems like Emily already knew Takeda (Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa) and she helped him take Aiden under his wing. The Grayson's aren't without their own flashbacks, as Victoria's (Madeleine Stowe) mother, Marion (Adrienne Barbeau) drops into town for Thanksgiving, new man in tow, Mr Greevey (Matt Riedy). She plans on marrying him and Victoria reluctantly lets her stay. Daniel (Josh Bowman) is still at college and is into poetry in a big way. To the point of actually getting Conrad (Henry Czerny) to read some of his poems, as if he'd actually approve of a son of his writing poetry. Perish the thought, as he did with his poems!
Jack's (Nick Wechsler) father, Carl (Brian Goodman) has a run in with Joe Ryan (Michael Rose) who is nothing more than a thug extorting protection money from the businesses at the wharf, as are his sons, present day. It's funny though how Jack doesn't recall the name Ryan, unless he never heard it, since he would have recalled them now and been weary of starting a partnership with them.
Ashley apparently was about to 'sell' herself in return for money and Emily sends her away with money after getting details on the whereabouts of a Dmitri (Timothy v Murphy). He's into girls and trafficking them. Was going to say nothing's changed with Ashley then, ha. Emily tells Aiden who is tending bar, his Russian stinks. Takeda tells her about Colleen who is missing and turns out she's Aiden's sister. He foils Emily's plan to get in with Dmitri but she saves him from Aiden shooting him. However that was shortlived as Aiden manages to get his revenge on Dmitri and shoots him anyway, all that for nothing.
Victoria flashes back to the men her mother knew, who always liked her back when she was 15 and how she became who she is now cos of her. Victoria tells Greevey of the time her mother threw her out, and how beforehand she had her shoot Thomas otherwise she'd never see her mother again. Maybe that would have been a good thing. Victoria wrecks her mother's last chance at making a 'life' for herself, well ensnaring another rich man and afterwards she and Conrad comment on how he paid Greevey the money for staging the meeting with her mother. SO she got her revenge, as did Conrad, kind of by burning Daniel's poetry. He's good but Conrad wants him to run Grayson Global.
Carl's friend shoots Ryan with his father's gun and they let that storyline go all season 1 until now, until his brats take over from him. Nolan's (Gabriel Mann) CFO, Marco (EJ Bonilla) tells him the accountants have discovered the account in the Cayman's is missing over a billion dollars and he comes clean about David Clark being an investor and how he couldn't let his daughter suffer. Seems like Nolan gives his heart too readily to people who stab him in the back, as Padma will probably do the same.
Present Day
As Dcclan (Connor Paolo) tells Kenny Ryan (JR Bourne) [surprised no one's heard of them and their dirty dealings,] they can't sell expensive booze and Kenny mentions what his father used to say. Aiden can't believe he ended up with her six years later and she shows him her father's conspiracy box, with the affinity symbol which he sees on her wrist. Ugh don't trust that Aiden cos there's more to him than meets the eye, especially the way he looked at her tattoo. Emily remarks about "a never ending journey." Is that her revenge or the time the show will be on air, ha.
Daniel calls Marco for news on NolCorp and he's more than happy to oblige. Victoria wants Conrad's help to protect Daniel and he regrets how perhaps he should have let him become a poet after all, now he's in the firing line. They have to stop him from taking over the board.
It was good how the pieces from six years ago all came together in the present day, of how Victoria got revenge on Marion but then she and Conrad turn around and basically manipulate Daniel into doing what they want him to do and became his father in essence. Victoria of course not learning from her past and her mother's mistakes, is destined to continue making her own. SO no matter what revenge she got on her mother, she still isn't any better than her. As for Conrad he was married before meeting Victoria and it seems that Victoria probably manipulated him into marrying her too, judging from that painter lover of hers from season 1 and everything that happened between them. Including Conrad's affair with Lydia.
They keep adding more facets to the Flight conspiracy as Aiden knows about it and his father was a baggage handler at Heathrow, but says his father would never do a thing like planting a bomb, if I heard right. So what did the Russian mobsters have to do with the plane, or was that just one of Takeda's missions since he tells Emily after she pulls this one off, she can get back on track to her own revenge. Let's hope this part of the plot doesn't get too confusing as they get more people involved in it.
Funny Victoria having spent time in a mental institution when she was 15, didn't help though, ha. She and Emily's mother, Kara also being in the same boat of being put away due to circumstances beyond their control. But what did David see in Victoria to begin an affair with her anyway. Wonder if Victoria saw a reflection of Marion when she looked in the mirror and not of herself? She is after all, her mother's daughter.
Oh and it seems everyone had the same hair styles post 2006 and circa 2006!! This flashback episode was similar in many respects to that of season 1's episode 20 Legacy, back to 2002 when Emily was about to get that cheating guy of hers with the toilet seat. here Ashley locks herself in the toilet and Emily has to save her. Back then Nolan had to rescue Emily and have a talk with her, also his hair was long in 2002, just as it was in the present day. here it's short in 2006, just as it is present day. Really no wigs available?? Jack had long locks in the 2002 flashback and also had Carl. The infinity symbol was also shown and how Emily had it tattooed onto her wrist, as it was alluded to here again this time by Aiden.
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